Extra Flashcards
City in between cliffs, carved into them. Capital city. Corinthian columns show Roman influence. Three rooms weird spacing between columns. God’s from different cultures, egyptian, roman, Assyrian. 500 tunes carved into walls, but no bodies. Could have been cremated.
Treasury and Great temple, Petra Jordan, 400 to 100 c e, cut Rock.
Small buddha, variocera( universal Buddha). Is the larger one, small caves, painted Buddhas with gold inspired by longman caves. Pilgrimage site where you circumulate the legs. Destroyed in 2001 by Taliban because it didn’t fit the religion
Buddha, afghanistan, 400 to 500 become a cut rock with plastered polychrome painting.
Buddha sitting in lotus pills, blue hair, glamorous. Proxy for Buddha. Buddha around 12:00, made in his lifetime. Unknown when it was actually made, oldest Buddhist temple in existence.Jowo= Lord, Rinpoche= special one. Location unknown for 20 years, during Chinese revolution found broken in half and trash. Upper half is in beijing. Put him back in 2003
Jowo Rinpoche, Enshrined in the Jokharg Temple, Lhasa Tibet, guilt metals with semi-precious Stone inlay
Several pictures, Jewish work. Shows preparation of Passover and Passover story. Miriam/mosis’s sister is an upper right. Everyone’s preparing for Passover. Tradition for the night before Passover kids ask why is it special, explain story. Next section shows the four plagues. Next shows Angel of death and Pharaoh ordering Israelites to leave. Red Sea. Used to tell story of Passover, golden hagada is wealthiest one. Burning bush. Includes prayers. Condition shows that was used for ceremonial purpose, gothic style
Golden Haggadah, 1320, illuminated manuscript, pigment on vellum
